What it tells us about the past: Around 800 years ago, a 7-year-old boy named Onfim seems to have gotten bored with doing schoolwork and ... contained figural doodles, and their delightfully ...

Despite the upheaval in that era, Medieval Russians went about their business, and bored kids, including one named Onfim, ...

Bored children still doodled in the margins of their schoolwork. Illustrations of the ... all of those insights and curiosities, Onfim's doodles are by far the most famous. He is a beloved local ...

a 7-year-old boy named Onfim seems to have gotten bored with doing schoolwork and instead drew himself as a horseback rider slaying an enemy. Onfim, who scrawled his name on his entertaining ...